The fans are football. Fans are "another football"

Football is an extremely popular sport. Without any discounts, it can be called the most popular in the world - thousands of clubs, millions of players (fans will record there) and billions of fans around the world. A fan, as the name suggests, is one who "suffers with a soul," worries about the successes and failures of one or more teams, as well as individual players. Whether he watches matches on TV or goes to the stadium is not so important. You can say that football for him is one of the hobbies, a hobby that helps to relieve the excess of emotional tension, explaining in detail to the players and judges who they are and from whom they happened.

Special subspecies

But in a heterogeneous environment of football fans there is a special kind called football fans . Despite the fact that to an ignorant person they seem like each other like tin soldiers, inside the fan movement there is a division that shows that not every fan is a frostbitten fighter with a bare torso and a scarf around his neck.

Scarfers and ultras

These two areas combine active participation in home and away matches, relative safety for others. The following divides them. Scarfers (the name comes from the word "scarf") focuses on the attributes, in particular the club scarf. Actually, to see a scarf without a scarf is possible only in the shower or in the bed. They are also attached to club things and flowers. At the stadium, they come to take a deep heart, sing, to drink mentally - in general, at ease and have fun, emotionally discharge.

Ultras are much more organized and active. These football fans hang out huge banners at the stadium, they carry and throw them on the field, they meet teams with away matches with invented speeches and songs. They never stop talking, encouraging their pets on the field, no matter how much the score burns on the scoreboard. Another difference from scarfs is a calm attitude to club things. As a rule, they wear ordinary clothes, and even a club scarf is not an obligatory attribute.

As we see, fans are not just fights and beer, but also culture.

Carlans and hills

They are united by a sincere desire to fight properly. At the same time, the carlan is a sloppy and almost always tipsy young guy, capable of posing a danger both for the fans of the other team, and for any other fan. Can get and just passers-by. By and large, carlans are ordinary hooligans who use football matches and paraphernalia to give their actions at least some sense.

Hulses are completely different. As a rule, these are quite serious guys who are not just ready to start a fight, but they also train for this purpose all the time. They are more often combined into groups, which include "wall to wall" against the same hills, but from the camp of another team. For all others, except for some cases, they are not dangerous. Exceptions include the actions of the police or aggression in their direction - there's just hold on!

As we can see, the fans are both fights and beer, but very differently.

A bit of history

Fights and violence have accompanied football since its inception. Bombings on the football field and beyond in England were the norm of things. But the movement itself, when the fans of the football club have merged into groups (or, as they are called, "firms") refers to the sixties of the twentieth century. At first England, and then Italy, got another one in the makeweight of the loyal fans - youth gangs, whose main passion was not football itself, but the surrounding fun - alcohol and fights. Fans of the great football club and second-rate behavior and degree of sobriety could hardly be distinguished.

In the Soviet Union, the fan movement penetrated much later, in the seventies. Since the idea itself was clearly "anti-Soviet", any attempts by the fans to imitate the Western "hooligans" were severely suppressed by policemen. Most often after the next action, the entire "team" was in the office. But the chicken on the grain ... and in 1977 the first small departure was marked "spartachi", followed by the others. In general, fans are like a feat, a dissidence for that time.

The situation radically changed with the coming to power of Mikhail Gorbachev. "The Iron Curtain" has opened slightly, and "firms" have become actively replenished by participants - trips for 250-300 people have become commonplace. Equally common was the massive and planned fights between the fans.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in Russia, the fan movement was seriously developed only in two cities - St. Petersburg and Moscow. In other cities, fans are small in terms of the number of participants in the group, not compared to fans from the two capitals.

The most "fanatical" clubs

Surprisingly, the most famous and strong fan groups do not refer to the grandees of world football. In the top of the "firms" there is no "Real", nor "Barcelona", nor "Bavaria" with "Chelsea". Fans of the great club, as it turned out, are not necessarily the coolest. By the way, the most powerful and organized "brigades" consist of fans of "Crvena Zvezda", Zagreb "Dynamo" and German "St. Pauli". Of the Russian clubs among the best was "Yaroslavka", supporting CSKA.

A little interesting "about the fan"

As well as almost any subculture, fan movement during the years of its existence was strongly "overgrown" with special slang, some of which had already left for the people. Electric trains - "dogs", instant noodles - "bomzhpaket" ... and how do you nickname the mounted militia - "minotaur" !?

One of the distinguishing features of some groups of fans are white sneakers. This sometimes leads to rather unpleasant situations for mods who put on such shoes out of a desire to pose or simply out of ignorance.

Not only clubs have golden seasons. "Golden" in the fan is the year when he did not miss a single exit.